Timeline for Finite subgroups of mapping class groups
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| Feb 26, 2023 at 2:29 | comment | added | Ryan Budney | @AndySanders: presumably the context there is that there are no known faithful representations, when the genus is 3 or larger. They may exist, but likely we have not seen such representations, yet. | |
| Aug 31, 2014 at 21:22 | comment | added | Andy Sanders | Thank you Dan, a google search drew up some notes of Benson Farb stating exactly this. | |
| Aug 31, 2014 at 20:38 | comment | added | Dan Petersen | "I vaguely recall hearing that Mod(Σ) has no faithful, finite dimensional linear representations." --- Actually, it's a major open problem whether or not mapping class groups are linear. | |
| Aug 31, 2014 at 15:46 | answer | added | Lee Mosher | timeline score: 13 | |
| Aug 31, 2014 at 13:37 | history | asked | Andy Sanders | CC BY-SA 3.0 |